The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.

Farha

2021

Arabic

8.0

♡ 35

100%

inspired by true story

palestine

palestinian-israeli conflict

Darin J. Sallam Director

Ali Suliman as Abu Walid

Karam Taher as Farha

Ashraf Barhom as Farha's Father

Firas Taybeh as Farida's Father

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.

Saturday Fiction

2019

Chinese

6.6

♡ 2

48%

Ye Lou Director

Mark Chao as

Ayumu Nakajima as

Tom Wlaschiha as Saul Speyer Li Gong

Li Gong as Yu Jin

Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star in a play directed by her former lover. However, her undercover work for the Allies soon places her life in grave danger.

Dad's Army

1971

English

6.9

♡ 8

42%

Norman Cohen Director

Liz Fraser as Mrs. Pike

Sam Kydd as Nazi Orderly

Derek Newark as R.S.M.

John Le Mesurier as Sgt. Wilson

Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.

War of the Buttons

2011

French

6.2

♡ 2

25%

42%

1940s

Adventure

based on novel or book

Christophe Barratier Director

Marie Bunel as La mère Lebrac

Kad Merad as Le père Lebrac

Guillaume Canet as Paul, L'instituteur

Laetitia Casta as Simone

Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.

Red Tails

2012

English

5.9

♡ 51

41%

Anthony Hemingway Director

Andre Royo as Antwan 'Coffee' Coleman

Jaime King as Axis Mary

Matthew Marsh as Brigadier General Hauser

Bryan Cranston as Colonel William Mortamus

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

The Diary of Anne Frank

2016

German

6.8

♡ 4

1940s

based on memoir or autobiography

Hans Steinbichler Director

Lea van Acken as Anne Frank

Jamie Bick as Hanneli

Florian Teichtmeister as Karl Josef Silberbauer

Ulrich Noethen as Otto Frank

The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.

Distant Voices, Still Lives

1988

English

7.4

♡ 12

80%

Terence Davies Director

Pete Postlethwaite as Father

Andrew Schofield as Les

Lorraine Ashbourne as Maisie

Judith Barker as Rose's Family

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989

English

6.5

♡ 18

50%

Roland Joffé Director

Jim True-Frost as Donald Hornig

Mary Pat Gleason as Dora Welsh

Paul Newman as General Leslie R. Groves

John Williams as Mack Stoddard

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."

Kobe Kokusai Gang

1975

Japanese

5.9

♡ 2

Noboru Tanaka Director

Ken Takakura as Masato Dan

Natsuko Yashiro as Pak's Whore

Renji Ishibashi as Pochi

Moeko Ezawa as Satoko

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.

Invisible Life

2019

Portuguese

7.7

♡ 21

94%

Karim Aïnouz Director

Ismar Martins as Acompanhante Leila

Fernanda Montenegro as Eurídice

Fernando Ceylão as Laerte

Shirley Cruz as Leila

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.

The Devil Strikes at Night

1957

German

7.2

♡ 2

1940s

based on magazine, newspaper or article

Robert Siodmak Director

Mario Adorf as Bruno Lüdke

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Dr. Schleffien

Claus Holm as Kommissar Axel Kersten

Friedrich Joloff as Radiostimme

Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.

The Evictors

1979

English

5.4

♡ 3

28%

Charles B. Pierce Director

Michael Parks as Ben Watkins

Vic Morrow as Jake Rudd

Dennis Fimple as Mr. Bumford

Sue Ane Langdon as Olie Gibson

A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history.

A Jazzman's Blues

2022

English

6.8

♡ 9

67%

Tyler Perry Director

E. Roger Mitchell as Buster

Ryan Eggold as Ira

Kario Marcel as Johnathan Dupree

Beth B Parker as Show Attendee

A tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South.

Come See the Paradise

1990

English

6.7

♡ 10

64%

Alan Parker Director

David Carpenter as Army Captain

Dennis Quaid as Jack McGurn

Tamlyn Tomita as Lily Yuriko Kawamura / McGann

Kim Robillard as Road Block Soldier

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.

The Bunker

1981

English

6.8

♡ 10

55%

George Schaefer Director

Anthony Hopkins as Adolf Hitler

Susan Blakely as Eva Braun

Terrence Hardiman as Gen. Fegelein

Robert Pugh as Turnow

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

Philadelphia Experiment II

1993

English

4.5

♡ 7

Stephen Cornwell Director

Brad Johnson as David Herdeg

Cyril O'Reilly as Decker

David Wells as Pinstripes

James Jude Courtney as Vortex Technician

It is several years after the events of the first movie, and David Herdeg (the survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment from the first film) and Allison (the woman from 1984 he fell in love with) have married and have a child. David awakes, in agony, to a changed world. Germany won World War II and the United States is now about to mark 50 years as a Nazi conquest.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

2018

Romanian

7.3

♡ 4

92%

Radu Jude Director

Sofia Nicolaescu as

Ilinca Harnut as

Gabriel Spahiu as

Mihai Niculescu as

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

The Revenge of Robert the Doll

2018

English

2.7

♡ 18

Andrew Jones Director

Olivia Lee as Agnes Blackwood

Derek Nelson as Fuchs

Darren Swain as Schulz

Lee Bane as The Toymaker

Germany, 1941. Two secret agents, one working for British intelligence and the other working for the Nazis, board a train. Their mission is to find a Toymaker who is in possession of a mystical book which gives life to the inanimate. As the two secret agents close in and the Toymaker has no idea who to trust, he uses the magical tome to bring a vintage doll called Robert to life...and Robert will stop at nothing to protect his puppet master.

City on the River

2020

Latvian

7.0

♡ 1

1940s

Action

based on novel or book

Viesturs Kairiss Director

Imants Slisans as Ansis' Father

Maris Susejs as Bite

Juozas Budraitis as Captain

Guntis Pelna as Mamonov

A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of the WWII era. As brutal regimes come and go, his country, his village, his people, and even his heart are swept up in the inexorable currents of history.

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Invisible Life

The Devil Strikes at Night

The Evictors

A Jazzman's Blues

Come See the Paradise

The Bunker

Philadelphia Experiment II

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

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